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SPONTANEOUS MUTATION. “What if, instead, malware were able to change its function or behavior autonomously? What if, in the absence of human intervention, computer viruses resembled biological viruses in their ability to adapt to new defense technologies as soon as they came into effect?” http://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.2503 View in LinkedIn

LEAPING BOUNDS. “As computers become more prevalent, more complex, and more highly interconnected, we suspect that so will computer viruses. Eventually it is likely that a computer virus will be created with 'a robust capacity to evolve, that will progress far beyond its initial form.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION. “Human-induced characteristics of computer viruses are not terribly interesting. However, computer viruses that do mutate without human input are an entirely different story. This is the artificial life. Autonomously mutating computer code is subject to artificial evolution, and can potentially evolve very quickly.” https://lnkd.in/dhEdXSq View in LinkedIn

THE QUESTION. “If we ever make contact with life from other planets, will our science of biology help us understand it?" https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

NEW LIFE FORMS. “Within the next century we will likely witness the introduction on earth of living organisms originally designed in large part by humans, but with the capability to reproduce and evolve just as- natural organisms do.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION. “The advent of artificial life will be the most significant historical event since the emergence of human beings. The impact on humanity and the biosphere could be enormous, larger than the industrial revolution, nuclear weapons, or environmental pollution.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

NEW LIFE. “These organisms will evolve in a fundamentally different manner than contemporary biological organisms, since their reproduction will be under at least partial conscious control, giving it a Lamarckian component.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

THE COMING EVOLUTION. "Within fifty to a hundred years a new class of organisms is likely to emerge. These organisms will be artificial in the sense that they will originally be designed by humans. However, they will reproduce, and will evolve into something other than their initial form; they will be "alive" under any reasonable definition of the word.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

THE SANTA FE INSTITUTE paper of 1990 by J. Doyle Farmer and Alletta d’A. Belin is an extraordinary early paper on artificial life, which has largely become adopted in modern language by the Singularity movement. It will be quoted extensively in the following posts. https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

COEVOLUTION. “Researchers pitted self-replicating computer programs against computer viruses in the domain of the Avida platform for digital evolution. The co-evolution of host and virus ultimately led to organisms with capabilities superior to those of organisms that evolved without battling the viruses.” http://www.futurity.org/computers-mutations-evolution-826882/ View in LinkedIn